Signalhorn Expands Network Offerings to Major Oil & Gas Company with Introduction of Its Xtend Hybrid Intelligent Network

October 22, 2013

Signalhorn announced that a major customer, one of the world’s largest fully integrated oil and gas companies, has expanded its requirements to extend terrestrial and cellular 3G services from Signalhorn to thousands of locations across Europe to ensure round-the-clock commercial connectivity. 

The locations will be connected with Signalhorn’s Xtend solution, utilizing fully integrated terrestrial, cellular 3G and satellite technologies to deliver cost-effective and fail-safe communications required for critical point-of-sale and other terminal technologies. The service will conform to the strong security benchmark set by the Payment Card’s Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

The customer is one of the world's leading oil producers and gasoline retailers. The company requires a robust and global solution that can be rolled out country-by-country with guaranteed connectivity to support its network transactions activities. Signalhorn, with its global reach, deep operational experience, and proven expertise, has successfully rolled out thousands of other customer sites while meeting the high quality-of-service requirements of its customers. 

“This project award further validates the strong value proposition provided by Signalhorn’s hybrid solution combining terrestrial, cellular 3G and satellite technologies,” said Robert Kubbernus, Signalhorn’s CEO & President. “The fully managed service allows our clients maximum control of their network services in a way that exceeds their requirements from a technical and commercial perspective.” 

Commercial connectivity between company locations and headquarters must be up and running at all times so that transactions can be processed,” Kubbernus continued. “We optimize our customers’ networks based on a combination of the available technologies and we have the talent and global expertise internally to design, build, install, and maintain such large networks.” 

As part of the services expansion, Signalhorn will begin the roll-out of its Xtend network, with an expected completion in 2015. Signalhorn Xtend provides all the essential hardware, software, portal solution, licensing and management services to allow an existing VSAT network to incorporate terrestrial connectivity and cellular 3G for 100% availability.